His talent wasn’t noticed just by the producers, however, but also by a rising starlet called Naomi Tani. Moonlighting under a pen name, Kuroiwa wrote the scripts for many (now lost) films which managed to capture the audiences’ attention by distinguishing themselves among countless competing skin flicks.

With his unique flair for gritty stories with sadomasochistic undertones, the translator and language teacher Yukihiko Kuroiwa was the secret weapon of a handful of small, independent studios struggling to keep afloat. pole: Japanese historical drama, traditional local comedy, violence… and softcore porn, called ‘pink movies’. Risking bankruptcy, most illustrious studios had been forced to turn to lowbrow genre movies offering the kind of content that Hollywood wouldn’t touch with a ten ft. In the late 1960s the Japanese movie industry had hit a severe crisis brought on by several factors, including the growing success of foreign (Western) films. ‘Flower and snake 0’) – to be released on May 17 th – is technically just another episode in a forty years long franchise that includes remakes, animation, books and videogames, it may well mark a milestone to be reckoned with. Japan produces an astounding quantity of porn (54,000 videos in 2012 alone), yet recently the attention of every kinkster in the land of the Rising Sun has been focused on one upcoming movie.

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